ad levandam conscientiam

ad levandam conscientiam (ad l[schwa]-van-d[schwa]m kon-shee-en-shee-[ schwa]m). [Law Latin] Scots law. For the purpose of easing the conscience. • The phrase typically described certain confessions that a criminal suspect voluntarily made when apprehended and that could be used as evidence in the criminal trial. But an arrested suspect’s responses to questions posed by the arresting officer were usu. not admissible because only a magistrate could ask such questions.

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